Rivers APC Demands Wike's Resignation
….says he must apologize for undermining democracy and running the state
like a fiefdom
Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has been told to resign before he
completely grounds the State.
The State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) made the demand while
reacting to the sacking, last week Wednesday by Wike, of four Commissioners
and the suspension of the State Head of Service and Special Adviser on Lands
for three months. This was followed the next day by the dismissal of Local
Government Sole Administrators in the state.
Rivers APC in a statement signed by the State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu
Ikanya, accused Wike of playing to the gallery and likened him to a bad
workman who quarrels with his tools.
“We are not bothered if Wike decides to sack all his commissioners since they,
just like him, are a bunch of failures. The plot of Chief Wike from the
beginning has been to turn himself to an Emperor in a democratic dispensation.
The sacking, without giving any reason, of his Commissioners and dissolving
his illegal Local Government Sole Administrators exemplifies this vision” the
party said in the statement issued on Tuesday in the state capital, Port
Harcour
The statement called on Wike “to take the honourable path by apologising and
resigning now that it is obvious that his dreamy empire is gradually crumbling
like a pack of cards and in view of the dangers his misguided vision has
caused Rivers State, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the entire
Nigerian Nation.”
Insisting that Wike bulldozed his way into the Government House even though
unprepared for governance, Rivers APC said that he must go for the following
reasons:
1. Claiming and re-commissioning of roads and projects successfully executed by
his predecessor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
3. Destroying the security appliances and strategy put up by Amaechi to make the
state crime-free and instead turning the state into a Rivers of blood and
appointing suspected fellows with criminal records into his administration
without due clearance by the security agencies, thereby causing capital flight
and mass exodus of people and corporate bodies from Rivers State.
4. Running the state as a fiefdom without recourse to democratic principles and
bankrupting the state in just over a year in power while also sinking it into
monumental debt that will require generation to clear.
Concluding, Rivers APC said: “The evidence clearly shows that Wike is a
terrible disappointment to both Rivers State and Nigeria. He has taken
incompetence in governance to a new height in Nigeria, turning Rivers State to
a Rivers of blood where human lives no longer worth much and where kidnapping,
assassination and robbery have become the norms. Wike must go in the interest
of the peace and progress of Rivers State”, the party emphasized.
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA Media and Public Affairs to the State Chairman, APC Rivers State
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